Example sentences of "[adj] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only that , but all regions will have a direct say in European affairs at E C level , thanks to the creation of a new community institution the Committee of the Regions . |
| 2 | Unfortunately this is a calculation which can be made only very crudely since it is impossible to say with total accuracy ( even though we can make control sample comparisons ) ( a ) which clients would have been institutionalised in the absence of the project , and ( b ) whether they would have been admitted to a long-stay hospital or to residential accommodation . |
| 3 | Ted would sometimes wonder if he had n't made Pete into a kind of surrogate son to fill the hole that Shaun had left … it was impossible to say for sure , and nothing to be ashamed of anyway . |
| 4 | ‘ Impossible to say for certain , sir . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's too early to say for sure that this is a trend . |
| 6 | We are hopeful these figures show the numbers are reducing but it 's hard to say for sure . |
| 7 | In those days — we 're talking 1890 to about 1915 — there were hundreds of different brands and varieties of guitars being made in the United States , but it 's hard to say for sure that any of them were actually distributed in Hawaii — it was kind of off the beaten track . |
| 8 | It also has a major say in academic provision , student welfare , accommodation and national education policy . |
| 9 | Thus Major was able to say amid Tory cheers : ‘ That help will be additional to the future increase in pensions and other benefits which will take place automatically . |
| 10 | ( Just occasionally I may be able to say with reasonable confidence that a particular advertisement or campaign is quantifiably better at generating sales than another . |
| 11 | She quivered , then his gaze travelled past her , and she was able to say with quick energy , ‘ Daddy 'll climb right up again , he always does . |
| 12 | He thought Cattini must be in his mid-thirties , though it was difficult to say for sure . |
| 13 | While it is not difficult to say in general terms what the Council did under Henry VII , certain problems about its organization are less easily solved . |
| 14 | There is a stony silence , Dolores hides her head and turns away and it 's left to Fergal to say in solemn tones : |
| 15 | So it is not yet possible to say with absolute certainty , using evoked potentials that are correlated with reports of conscious mental events , whether or not an individual external event has resulted in a particular mental event . |
| 16 | The fact was that the activity of town planning had little specific to say about urban reconstruction . |
| 17 | ' It is not , therefore , presumptuous to say with quiet confidence , ‘ I know that I belong to Christ . |
| 18 | Or they 'd realize that it might be rather agreeable to say to visiting parents , ‘ That 's Noel Westerman — you know , Norman Ward Westerman 's son . |
| 19 | For non-Hindi households , English is now the weapon which will enable them to have a sufficient say in national administrative affairs . |
| 20 | It is not true to say of oral cultures that there is a peculiar ‘ directness of relationship between meaning and referent ’ , that ‘ the meaning of each word is ratified in a succession of concrete situations ’ only , that meanings in oral cultures are always particular and specific . |
| 21 | CIT 's honourary president the Princess Royal said at Light Rail 91 in Manchester that public transport had to be seen as an improvement not just as an alternative to car use . |